Franz Kafka died on 3 June 1924 in Kafka Sterbehaus, aged 40. A German-language writer from Prague, Kafka was a Jewish insurance clerk who wrote in his spare time and published only a few stories during his lifetime. His fiction, such as The Metamorphosis, in which a man wakes up as an insect, and the novels The Trial and The Castle, portrays individuals trapped in incomprehensible bureaucracies and facing guilt and alienation. He died of tuberculosis at the age of forty. Before his death he asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts, but Brod published them, and the term Kafkaesque entered the language to describe such nightmarish situations.
Before and after
- 2 February 1924Founding of International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- 3 February 1924Death of Woodrow Wilson
- 21 February 1924Birth of Robert Mugabe
- 3 April 1924Birth of Marlon Brando
- 3 June 1924Death of Franz Kafka
- 12 June 1924Birth of George H. W. Bush
- 24 June 1924Founding of Hungarian National Bank
- July 1924Founding of Adidas AG
- 20 July 1924Founding of FIDE
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